The Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety.
The Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2016.
This toolkit provides resources to help hospitals to augment safety. The updated toolkit represents adjustments made to the AHRQ Quality Indicators to support the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10, experience from testing in hospitals, and materials targeted to inform leadership of the program. The toolkit is structured around enhancing multidisciplinary teamwork by completing a series of steps such as assessing the organizational readiness for a change initiative, implementing improvements, and determining the return on investment of the programs.